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CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals will team up to bring a dose of free healthy activities and information to this week’s Wade Oval Wednesdays, held in University Circle at Wade Oval Drive. WOW is a weekly concert series held from 6 to 9 p.m. every Wednesday during the summer, sponsored by University Circle Inc. Read more here…

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. – The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation has awarded the Music Conservatory of Westchester a $6,075 Quality of Life grant, which the school will use to fund its Music Therapy Institute. Read more here…

Alive Inside:A Story of Music & Memory fits my category Movies That Should Play in Sag Harbor. This Friday it opens nationally, as it begins its second week in NYC. Director Michael Rossato-Bennett literally ran to the post office before its midnight closing in order to submit it in time to the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. At Sundance his film won the Documentary Audience Award and it’s easy to see why. From the opening scene–equipped with an iPod and earphones, long-time nursing home resident Henry, who suffers from dementia, sits up in his wheelchair for the first time in years and starts cheerfully singing along to the Cab Calloway song–Alive Inside is extraordinarily uplifting. Read more here…

Musicians from one of the UK’s leading chamber orchestras have been performing in a residential care home to help people with dementia. Members of Manchester Camerata have been encouraging residents at Station House Care Home in Crewe to play instruments to stimulate their minds. Read more here…

LOS ANGELES — “Begin Again” sees Irish writer-director John Carney on a larger canvas, revisiting themes from his lo-fi 2006 indie hit “Once” — chief among them the emotional connectivity of music. Swapping Dublin for New York, and trading a single couple for a group of people all trying to mend broken bonds or forge new ones, the touching film again trades in uncynical heart-on-its-sleeve sentiment, and deploys a series of gentle ballads, a number of them performed by star Keira Knightley. Read more here…

Today, the 67-year-old certified music practitioner provides soothing sounds to patients recovering at Florida Hospital Oceanside after taking a 46-year hiatus from the instrument. Therapeutic music is played at the patient’s bedside to relieve pain and anxiety. Read more here…

It has taken long enough, but finally Sia is everywhere. Having released her UK debut album, Healing Is Difficult, back in 2001, Sia has finally entered the UK album Top 20 with her fifth UK solo release, 1000 Forms of Fear, which appeared at number 11 last week. Armed with a commercially charged sound, reflecting the numerous hits she has written for everyone from Kylie to Rihanna, her latest album is a world away from the jazz-tinged experimental debut she unveiled thirteen years ago. While fans have flocked to Sia since she teamed up with David Guetta for the epic ‘Titanium’, here at So So Gay, we thought it was time to revisit the debut album that we fell in love with all those years ago, and still hold up as Sia’s most refreshingly exciting release to date. Read more here…

Filmmaker Michael Rossato-Bennett had planned to film Dan Cohen, a social worker and founder of the nonprofit organization Music & Memory, for a single day. Cohen had wanted to document his nascent program for elders with dementia who were springing back to life at a Brooklyn nursing home. Rossato-Bennett found himself crafting a story of music and memory around Cohen’s objective to bring personalized music to every individual in nursing homes throughout America. He filmed Cohen for three years. Read more here…

MIDLAND, TX, (Local Big 2 News) – A foster care center for abused and neglected children looks to start a music therapy program. “Music crosses barriers of culture, it crosses barriers of development,” says JaLynn Hogan, treatment director for the High Sky Children’s Ranch in Midland. Read more here…

POP star Peter Andre sprinkled a touch of stardust on a music therapy class. The Mysterious Girl singer joined in with a session last week at the Nordoff Robbins unit, based at the Brit School, in Selhurst. Read more here…